USA Today

Anyone who really knows me, knows that I love nothing more than reading the newspaper in the morning. I was thinking about the newspaper USA Today the other day. Do you think people that are reporters for USA Today feel good about working there? I don't think anyone really thinks they are a credible news source. I can't think of the last time USA Today broke a great news story. THIS JUST IN! A breaking pictograph from USA Today showing America's unemployment rate! Seriously, the National Enquirer breaks more real news than USA Today and it's not even a legit news source. They report real news by accident sometimes and they still beat out USA Today in the fact category. As an aside, I really like the pictograph above.

Resumes

Is it really necessary to list Microsoft Word as a qualification on your resume anymore? Should I just list West Deptford Middle School under the education header and have the employer assume that I am not an idiot? Come to think of it though ,I don't even think I could list myself as proficient in Word. I think I use Word maybe once a year. In fact, I don't think I even know how to use Word. I don't think I've ever figured out how to make the margins work the way I want them. I don't really know how to insert a picture where I want it, at the size I want it, and have the text work around it the way I want to either. I definitely know I never figured out how to make a list without bullet points, or figured out how to change the list to be numbers instead of letters without it auto-formatting itself back into bullets at indents that I don't like. Create a graph? Forget about it. I think the only thing I DO know how to do in Word is how to make the font change from Times New Roman to Courier New and change the spacing from 2, to 2.25.

closet baller....act 2

A couple of months ago I got a text from my good friend Dan about going to Vegas with him, so naturally I ignored it, as I do with most texts from good friends. I never really had any desire to go to Las Vegas, but I knew eventually my travels would take me there. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse...Free hotel. So I said I would go, and I actually got pretty excited about it. I got the scoop of things to do from trusted friends and made the most of the trip. It was a lot better than I expected and a lot less crazy than I expected. The snaps above are a pretty good synopsis of the trip.

Security

Nobody probably notices this stuff but me, but I am an architect and I am pretty observant. And I am probably partly crazy. Oh and I spend a lot of time in public bathrooms. Ever notice that the only place you see non-reversing security screws are in public restroom stalls? Probably not. But I am guessing people want to be most destructive when they have a few minutes to just sit and relax and tamper with things; and bathroom stalls are their favorite things to tamper with apparently. "Just sitting here with my screwdriver... might as well take apart this stall door."
Check it out next time. I've never seen these anywhere else.

New stuff I am working on at work

This is a project I am working on at work for a developer in the city. It's been a pretty fun project so far. It's an 80 some unit apartment building along South Street and Broad Street. Hopefully it goes through. It's been approved through zoning and should be approved by city council in the next few weeks. It's still in the very early stages and will probably change significantly. Pretty exciting though. Click on the images to enlarge.

first stab at a lobby

lobby

New Sketches

Chinatown YMCA

Zoning Committee Hearing

Locust Bar

Collingswood Theater

Tortilla Press

Rules Committee Hearing City Hall Chambers

Novel idea

I am sure this isn't a new idea and I'm sure someone has thought of it before, but I thought about it again last night and thought it was really funny still. I think it would be a great idea to open up an Irish bar called Shaquille O'Neal's. Like fancy kelly green script lettering outside... all irish gimmickery inside. beads, shamrocks, the works. No allusion to Shaquille O'Neal whatsover. And if it really took off, it would be equally funny to open up another bar right across the street called Donovan McNabb's. Same thing.